CogAT 8th grade results is in myMCPS

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97, 99, 99 here

curious for those above with 99 if your child also got a perfect score on the quantitative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:V - 99
Q - 99
NV - 99

My child applied to Poolesville SMCS and RM IB. No MCPS percentiles were listed on the score report.

I thought RMIB was only for lower county and Poolesville for upper county. How do you get to apply to both?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:V - 99
Q - 99
NV - 99

My child applied to Poolesville SMCS and RM IB. No MCPS percentiles were listed on the score report.

I thought RMIB was only for lower county and Poolesville for upper county. How do you get to apply to both?

RMIB is county wide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Age rank:
V-98
Q-99
NV-97

Grade rank:
V-99
Q-99
NV-97

Not sure the difference between age rank and grade rank. Anyone else know?

I suspect kids will need across-the-board 99s for admission into Blair magnet or RM IB. This same kid was not admitted to middle-school magnet.

Yes but MS admissions used cohort as a criteria. Its unclear for HS that is a factor or not.

[Anonymous]

V - 22
Q - 34
NV - 13

[Anonymous]

Oh crap. My kid applied for Blair SMAC and Wheaton engineering and flopped on Quantitative. Got 99th percentile in Verbal. He’s doomed. Maybe they’ll just send him over to CAP.

[Anonymous]

17:09, are those percentiles or the number of questions answered correctly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh crap. My kid applied for Blair SMAC and Wheaton engineering and flopped on Quantitative. Got 99th percentile in Verbal. He’s doomed. Maybe they’ll just send him over to CAP.

What do you mean by "flopped". How low was the score. My DC applied to RMIB and got a 95 on verbal, but 99 on the other 2.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh crap. My kid applied for Blair SMAC and Wheaton engineering and flopped on Quantitative. Got 99th percentile in Verbal. He’s doomed. Maybe they’ll just send him over to CAP.

What do you mean by "flopped". How low was the score. My DC applied to RMIB and got a 95 on verbal, but 99 on the other 2.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh crap. My kid applied for Blair SMAC and Wheaton engineering and flopped on Quantitative. Got 99th percentile in Verbal. He’s doomed. Maybe they’ll just send him over to CAP.

What do you mean by "flopped". How low was the score. My DC applied to RMIB and got a 95 on verbal, but 99 on the other 2.

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Yikes.. How was your DC's MAP-M and PARCC scores? I don't think they only look at cogat, do they? They must look at all kinds of scores and grades.

My DC told me that reading too much text on the computer gives DC a headache, so DC never does well on the verbal section of computer standardized tests where it requires reading long paragraphs. DC does well enough, but it's no where near as high as DC's other scores, but DC does very well in ELA classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:curious for those above with 99 if your child also got a perfect score on the quantitative

didn't get a perfect score, but got one wrong. has friends that got one or two wrong. highest score i've heard of is perfect nonverbal, perfect quan, and 4 wrong for verbal

[Anonymous]

I don’t think CoGAT can be the whole picture when there are grades, teacher recommendations, other test scores, and essays in the mix. Who knows if it will change in the future but it’s not like the MS scores and cohort only admissions — yet.

[Anonymous]

DC got 99 in grade percentile rank for both Q and NV but missed several questions (attempted 49, got 47 correct in quantitative). I wonder how wide the range is within that 99th percentile?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC got 99 in grade percentile rank for both Q and NV but missed several questions (attempted 49, got 47 correct in quantitative). I wonder how wide the range is within that 99th percentile?

must be pretty big. only 45 right here in NV and 99% but all 52 in Q

[Anonymous]

I agree, there must be a wide range within 99%. My kid got a 99% on verbal for both age and grade, but attempted 64 and only got 54 right. Yikes.

I think this is one reason the makers of the CoGAT test themselves apparently say that it's not meant to tease out fine differences between the high-percentile kids.

I really hope that the magnet HS don't put excessive weight on the test scores. Like 17:38's kid, some kids don't do well on computer tests. Others don't do well on standardized tests generally yet are incredibly smart. It's a very artificial test set-up, just as the SATs and all the other standardized tests are, and it shouldn't be taken as the be-all and end-all of intelligence, knowledge, or capability.